Methods, System, and Apparatus for Touchless Terminal Interface Interaction

2. The method of claim 1, wherein monitoring further includes activating a haptic device to provide haptic feedback to a hand of a user that provided the touch within the field when the touch is detected in the field.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising, translating a hand gesture made within the field without contacting the surface of the touch display into an interface operation, and processing the API to interact with the interface and cause the interface to process the interface operation.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising, interacting with the interface to render a region under the interface components rendered within the touch display, tracking movements of a finger within the field that does not contact the surface of the display, translating the movements into a word, rendering the word within the region for viewing by a user, and processing the API to interact with the interface to receive the word as text entry within an entry field of the interface.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising, identifying a hand gesture made within the field that is mapped to a command associated with closing the region and processing the API to interact with the interface to remove the region under the interface components rendered within the touch display.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising, translating hand movements detected within the field that do not contact the surface of the touch display into interface navigation commands and processing the API to interact with the interface and cause the interface to process the interface navigation commands.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising, translating a hand pose made within the field that is mapped to a request to initiate payment command for a transaction being performed by a user at a transaction terminal associated with the touch display and processing the API to interact with the interface and cause the interface to process the request to initiate payment command.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein monitoring the field further includes identifying the touch within the field based on a finger's position within the field that does not move for more than a preconfigured number of seconds.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising, processing the method as a Human Interface Device (HID) driver registered to an operating system of a transaction terminal associated with the interface of the touch display.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising, causing the interface through the HID driver to render a current position of a finger of a user that is placed into the field without contacting the surface of the touch display to be presented as a circle located at or over a corresponding interface component rendered on the touch display.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising, causing the interface through the HID driver to alter a color, a size, or a thickness of the circle based on a computed distance between the finger of the user and the surface of the touch display.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising, processing the method as a Human Interface (HID) device driver registered to an operating system of the terminal associated with the interface.

14. The method of claim 12 further comprising, iterating the method for movements of the finger in front of but not touching the surface of the touch display, translating the movements into selections of additional interface components, activating the additional interface components within the interface, and completing a transaction of the operator at the terminal, wherein the finger of the operator does not touch the surface of the touch display during the transaction.

15. The method of claim 12 further comprising, detecting one or more of hand gestures, hand movements, and hand poses made by the operator in front of but not touching the surface of the touch display, translating the hand gestures, the hand movements, and the hand poses into interface commands and interacting with the interface to process the interface commands.

16. The method of claim 12 further comprising, tracking movements of the finger made by the operator in front of the surface of the touch display without contacting the surface of the touch display, translating the movements into a text word, and activating the interface to receive the text word as an operator-entered word being supplied for entry by the operator into an entry field component of the interface.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein mapping further includes causing a haptic device to provide a physically detectable vibration to the finger when the finger is detected as being within a configured distance of touching the surface of the touch display.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein mapping further includes causing the haptic device to provide a different physically detectable vibration to the finger once the interface component is mapped to the interface component as feedback to the operator that the operator has selected the interface component of the interface with the finger.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the transaction terminal is a Self-Service Terminal (SST), an Automated Teller Machine (ATM), a Point-Of-Sale (POS) terminal, a kiosk, or a gaming terminal.